World War II Chronicle: March 18, 1941

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Col. William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan, has completed a trip to Europe, having just touched down after the Atlantic crossing on the Yankee Clipper, a Boeing 314 flying boat. Donovan has made multiple secretive trips to network with the British. In May, Pres. Roosevelt appoints him to the new position of Coordinator of Information. There, he will forge an American foreign intelligence service which turns into the Office of Strategic Services — the predecessor to today’s Central Intelligence Agency…

Incidentally, Pan Am was founded in 1927 by Army Air Corps majors Henry H. “Hap” Arnold and Carl A. Spaatz. 14 years later, Col. Spaatz is the assistant to the Chief of the Air Corps, Maj. Gen. Hap Arnold… Sports section begins on page 38, which hints that University of Tennessee football coach Robert Neyland may be returning to the Army. Stay tuned for more on Neyland in forthcoming posts.

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Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 18 March 1941. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1941-03-18/ed-1/